Detecting deception in children: event familiarity affects criterion-based content analysis ratings

2004

• “The VCUG procedure was used as the target event in this study because it is similar in many ways to child sexual abuse, the real world behavior that we hope to generalize these results to. However, whereas we knew exactly what had occurred in the medical procedure that each child in this study participated in (the procedures were videotaped), practitioners rarely know what transpired in alleged incidents of sex abuse.”